Saturday, July 9, 2016

Calls for strict gun control following a deadly week in America
come despite new statistics that show gun deaths plummeting as sales of
firearms soar.

According to the industry's trade group, the National Shooting Sports Foundation,
homicides by gun have dropped 43 percent since 1991. Other crime with a
gun such as robberies have decreased even more, by 70 percent since
1993.

In a graphic display of the numbers, NSSF also showed that unintentional deaths with a gun have dropped 82 percent.

“All I would say is that I have been honored to serve my country for the
past three decades and look forward to serving in other ways now that I
am retired from the U.S. Army,” Flynn said. “I’ve been a soldier too
long to refuse to entertain any request from a potential commander in
chief.”

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This may well be a go considering the others under consideration, but anyone but Gingrich, please. :)
After weeks of focusing on a group of current and former elected officials in his search for a running mate, Donald Trump is increasingly intrigued by the idea of tapping retired Lt. Gen. Michael T. Flynn to project strength and know-how on national security, according to four people familiar with the vetting process.

Flynn, a registered Democrat but fierce critic of President Obama, previously ran the Defense Intelligence Agency.

The people who spoke with The Washington Post on Saturday did so on the condition of anonymity to discuss their private conversations in recent days with Trump’s confidants and campaign aides.

The turn toward a military figure is being driven by Trump himself rather than by his advisers, the people said, and comes as the real estate mogul is telling his friends that national unrest may demand a “tough and steady” presence alongside him on the ticket.

By now everyone is aware of the officer involved shooting of Philando
Castile that became a viral BLM activist case as a direct result of his
girlfriend, Diamond Reynolds (aka Lavish Reynolds) live-streaming the
aftermath from their vehicle. – BACK STORY HERE –

NOTE: It is critical to remember -as you review the images and the video- optically the live stream was captured as a mirror image.
Some video uploads mirror the image, it can be confusing, you have to
reset your reference points. Philando Castile was driving, Diamond
Reynolds was the passenger.

During the uploaded video narration Ms. Reynolds stated the police officer pulled them over for a broken tail light.

Some 39% of those polled said a Donald Trump presidency would improve
U.S. real-estate values more than if former Secretary of State Hillary
Clinton (29%) became commander-in-chief, according to a survey carried
out last month of 2,000 Americans by the Harris Poll on behalf of
Trulia, a San Francisco-based real-estate research group.

Only
15% of Americans said that real-estate prices would fall under Trump,
slightly higher than Clinton’s polling at 13% seeing a real estate
decline under her presidency.

“Americans give an overall edge to
Trump in our poll when it came to a strong housing market,” the report,
released July 7, said.

Notwithstanding most registered
Democrats’ antipathy for all things Trump, 47% of those identifying as
Democrats said housing prices would rise if the billionaire real-estate
developer was elected, compared with just 24% who said the same about
Clinton. Independents by a margin of 35% to 25% also saw Trump being
better for real-estate prices. Trump owns his largest margin on the
issue among younger voters aged 18 to 39, the poll showed, with a
21-point advantage of 49% to 28%.

The Fraternal Order of Police, the country’s largest
group of sworn law-enforcement officers, is asking the Justice
Department to “immediately” investigate the killing of five Dallas
police officers as a hate crime.

“The U.S. Department of Justice is always quick to
insert itself into local investigations,” group President Chuck
Canterbury said Friday. “Today we expect action just as swift. We want a
federal investigation into those who were motivated by their hatred of
police to commit mass murder in Dallas.”

This one takes a little bit of courage to write and a little bit of
courage to read. Touching anything to do with the subject of “race” and
especially the “white race” is the third rail of Christian ministry.

Yet, I am compelled to speak the Truth. The fact that others might
be brainwashed, or scared, or holier-than-thou is what makes this
endeavor so risky. But I have always tried to stay faithful to my
reputations as a truth teller…not necessarily always right…but always
ready and willing to speak the truth as I see it.

There was a time when speaking the truth wasn’t considered risky, but
rather, expected. Open and honest discussion was a foundational
exercise that helped shape the fabric of this nation. But that was
before political correctness, Cultural Marxism, and Alinsky tactics put
the kibosh on independent thought and speech.

A man is never really free if his speech is not free. Thoughts are
not now, nor should they ever be, a crime. We are rapidly moving
towards the time when men and women will be punished for merely
expressing what they think. There can be no greater form of tyranny
than that.

Almost 3 years ago to the day, I produced a video I am Proud to be White. When you are done reading this commentary, please take the time to come back to this link and watch it…it is 5 minutes long.

​About 20 to 30 protesters were arrested and booked into Parish Prison stemming from a demonstration Friday night and early Saturday morning outside Baton Rouge Police headquarters, an official said.

Baton Rouge Police spokesman Cpl. L'Jean McKneely said he did not know what counts the protesters face and didn't immediately have information on their names. Officials at the Parish Prison and the East Baton Rouge Sheriff's office did not immediately respond to queries.

Numerous people were seen detained, some restrained with zip ties around their wrists, during the fourth night of protests after Alton Sterling was killed by a Baton Rouge police officer on Tuesday in Baton Rouge. A source has said that Police Officer Blane Salamoni, one of two officers caught by cell phone video in the altercation with Sterling, shot him.

The head of the State Police defended his troopers' work Friday night and early Saturday morning as lawmen faced off with a crowd protesting the police killing of Alton Sterling.

"I think they did well," said Col. Mike Edmonson of his troopers, some of whom were seen outfitted with helmets and assault-style weapons strapped across the front of their bodies.

"We're not about a show of aggression," he said. Edmonson said some of his troopers were hit in the head by frozen bottles of water thrown by protesters.

The 85-year-old political activist and philanthropist hit the
headlines post-Brexit saying the event had “unleashed” a
financial-market crisis.

Well, the crisis hasn’t hit Soros just yet.

He was once again on the right side of the trade, taking a short
position in troubled Deutsche Bank and betting against the S&P via a
2.1-million-share put option on the SPDR S&P 500 ETF.

More interestingly, Soros recently took out a $264 million position
in Barrick Gold, whose share price has jumped over 14% since Brexit.
Along with this trade, Soros has sold his positions in many of his
traditional holdings.

Now why do I such an incendiary
question? Because all morning we have been trying to find out if the
marching route had been published prior to this series of assassinations
of the Dallas police officers,” Savage said.

“We cannot find a permit that was filed by BLM. We cannot find a
record of it in the Dallas city office. We cannot find it on the BLM
websites. And so, since the parade or march route was not published in
advance, I would assume that only the Black Lives Matter community
organizers knew which direction they would be taking.”

Savage continued:

So now follow the logic, which is not dead in America, especially amongst us old white men, who learned to think.

Since word leaked Friday afternoon about the order made by Dallas
police Deputy Chief Julian Bernal, I have been inundated by outraged
phone calls, emails and text messages from current and retired Dallas
police officers.

The general sentiment is that it dishonored the memory of slain
Lancaster police Officer Craig Shaw and the innocent bystander who were
killed by Brown Jr. in a Father’s Day shootout.

Texas authorities say two officers have shot and killed a gunman on Houston's south side.

Houston Police Department officials say the shooting happened about
12:40 a.m. Saturday, when officers saw a man with a revolver standing in
the road. Police say after officers asked the man to put down the gun,
he instead pointed the revolver in the air, then at the officers. The
officers then fired numerous times.

The Hamas-linked Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) and other
Islamic supremacist groups have assiduously courted Black Lives Matter,
and linked their propaganda efforts against “Islamophobia” to the Black
Lives Matter stand against perceived racism. In Dallas last night, we
see where this is tending: as Kyle Shideler notes in the March article
below, “At the event, MAS leader Khalilah Sabra openly discussed the
importance of Muslim support for Black Lives Matter, and urged
‘revolution.’ Comparing the situation in the United States to the Muslim
Brotherhood-led Arab Spring revolutions, she asked,
‘We are the community that staged a revolution across the world; if we
can do that, why can’t we have that revolution in America?’” And with
the mass murder of police in Dallas last night, we’re getting there.

The chief of police in El Paso, Texas, labeled Black Lives Matter a
“radical hate group” Friday night, blaming them for Thursday’s shooting
in Dallas and calling on policymakers to take a closer look at the
movement.

Greg Allen was in attendance at a news conference Friday where
various leaders in the El Paso area expressed solidarity with Dallas
while also trying to appeal to those who feel marginalized by a recent
spate of high-profile police shootings. Allen didn’t deliver a statement
at the conference, but he gave an interview to local press afterwards.

During the interview, Allen was asked to comment on an upcoming
protest vigil El Paso’s Black Lives Matter group is planning to hold
Sunday night. He responded by denouncing the group in remarkably harsh
terms.

The South in the twentieth century has embraced any number of
northern athletic imports and made them her own. Arguably, the South has
produced the premier basketball player in Michael Jordan, the top
baseball player in Ty Cobb, and the greatest football player in Jim
Brown. Boxing, however, is not a sport that one associates with Southern
bred champions.

The modern sport of boxing was codified in the British Isles in the
middle of the nineteenth century. Boxers from Great Britain would
dominate the sport until the turn of the century when Americans
dominated the sports glamour division, the heavyweights. Two Southerners
were among these early champions: Marvin Hart of Louisville, Kentucky
and the great Jack Johnson of Galveston, Texas.

The first golden age of
the heavyweight division during the 1920s and 1930s saw the division
dominated by three legendary fighters of Irish heritage: Jack Dempsey,
Gene Tunney, and Jim Braddock. Dempsey was from Colorado; Tunney and
Braddock were both from New York. Braddock gave a harsh boxing lesson to
one John “Corn” Griffin, a leading contender from Florida. The man who
destroyed Braddock and definitively broke the Irish-American hold on the
heavyweight crown was the incomparable Joe Louis, a native of Alabama.
The next Southern native to hold the belt after Louis was the underrated
Ezzard Charles.

Remembrance

Execution of Colonel Ho Ngoc CanLast words: "If I won the war, I would not condemn you as you have condemned me.I would not humiliate you as you have humiliated me.I would not ask you questions that you asked me.I fought for the freedom of my people.I have merit and I am not guilty.No one can convict me.History will criticize you as my Communist enemy.You want to kill me, then kill me.Do not blindfold me.Down with the Communists.Long live the Republic of Viet Nam !"

Colonel CraigMandeville:

“They wanted the people to see that he was dead,” said Craig Mandeville, an American adviser to the South Vietnamese army who fought side by side with Can. “He was believed to be some sort of invincible guy. The North Vietnamese thought that, too, and I even thought that when I fought with him.”

“He said, ‘OK, the country’s fallen, but by God we’re still South Vietnamese and we’re free,’ ” Mandeville recalled. “So he went down to Chuong Tien province and rounded up all these soldiers down there to form a Free Vietnam.”

Col. Can didn’t live long after that, but the legacy of his struggle lives on.

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Core Creek Militia

==============================My sixth great grandfather, his wife, and five of his six children were killed in battle with the Tuscarora Indians at Core Creek, NC.

The Seven Blackbirds

==============================My third great grandfather was an Ensign in the Revolutionary War, and saved his unit's flag after being wounded at the Battle of Brandywine. He was also at Kingston (Kinston), Wilmington, Charleston, Two Sisters and Augusta. He was at the defeat at Brier Creek and also Bee Creek.

Requiem Aeternam -
Eternal Rest Grant unto Them
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My second great grandfather was killed in action on May 3, 1863 at the Battle of Chancellorsville.
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My great grandfather and great uncle knew all the men in the "Civil War Requiem" video as they were part of the 53rd NC which was the sole unit defending Fort Mahone. (Fort Mahone was named "Fort Damnation" by the Yankees) *Handpicked men of the 53rd (My great grandfather was one of these) made the final, night assault at Petersburg in an attempt to break Grant's line. This was against Fort Stedman which was a few miles to the slight northeast. They initially succeeded, but reinforcements drove them back. This video is made from photographs which were taken the day after the 53rd evacuated the lines the night before to begin the retreat to Appomattox. I have many more pictures taken by the same photographer, one of these shows a 14 year old boy and the other is the famous picture of the blond, handsome soldier with his musket.
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*General Gordon promised the men a gold medal and 30 days leave if they accomplished their task and many years after the War my great grandfather wrote General Gordon, who was then governor of Georgia about this incident. They exchanged several letters which I have framed. See first link below.
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*The Attack On Fort Stedman
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"His Colored Friends"
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Lee's Surrender
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My Black NC Kinfolks
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Punished For Being Caught!

Great Grandfather Koonce

He was a drummer boy in the WBTS, survived the War only to die a few years later. He was caught in an ice storm on his way home, but instead of seeking shelter, continued on his horse until the end. His clothes had to be cut off and he died a few days later.